I updated to the latest version (2.3.2) of Pagelines last weekend. Since then there appear 2 images in each post in the rss feed: 1 small (the article foto) and 1 big (from the post itself). I didn't use any plugin like RSS Manager before because all worked well. After this update and problem I tried the RSS Manager, but this doesn't help. So I really do hope, you can help me fixing that because I'm not a programmer and have no clue what to do ...

Wait a second! I guess it's not because of the update, I als changed to "full post" in rss reader in the settings of WordPress! Nor I changed that back to "excerpt" - and the second image is gone. Nevertheless: I find it awkward that choosing the full post setting causes the second image to display. But I guess that's a problem of WordPress, not PageLines, right?

@Catrina Thanks for that info! Is there a way to suppress this? That PageLines takes the full post text only? Without the picture? I need to define a seperate post image for the blog page (mobiwatch.de): When I'm not defining an explicit post image, there appears no image on the blog page. So I used to give every post the same image twice: once in the post itself and once as the explicit post image for the blog page. If there would be a way to make PageLines use the regular image in the post and show this one on the blog page I wouldn't need to define the image as explicit post image, too ... and then there wouldn't appear both in the rss feed. You know what I mean? Is this possible? And if yes: how? Or what would you advise me to do?
Thanks again!

) I would like to have the medium size image, which I defined as 250 x 250 pixels.

Because of the trouble I posted ahead (two images in the rss feed) I now use the featured image only, no image in the post itself any more.I already checked and re-loaded the featured image on some posts like the e.g. above: they refer to the full sized image (

Nothing helped: The post shows the small thumbnail (150 x 150) nevertheless.(The small thumbnail on the home page works well, that's alright.)I'm now just trying to get the image in the post itself being bigger (250 x 250 or whatever I define as medium size in the media settings of WordPress) and aligned to the right, if possible.

Would you please be so kind t letme know how to do that?I really tried out all solutions I could find in this froum ...

yes, I want to have larger images (medium size) in the post itself; not on the home mage (blog page): the small thumbnails there are alright.

Did you take those image sizes from the home page? Here are used the "small size" pictures, which I defined as width=150 in the media settings of WordPress. And that's great as it is. Or are they coming from inside the posts? Like this one:

Then it must be a problem of the WordPress user interface: The original image size (Playstation post) is 534 x 312 pixels. Its in the media database with this size. In the edit modus of WordPress I click on "add featured image", search the image and I only can click on "use as featured image" (in German: "Als Artiklbild nutzen"). Please see the screenshot here:

So the question is: How can I force WordPress or PageLines not to use the small thumnail size when defining the featured image for the post but use the medium size image? Am I using WordPress in the wrong way? Or is there a way to re-define this? Best way would be to use the "medium" image size which I define in the media settings (by now it's 250 width but I might have to change that to 300 or 350 pixels). Some piece of code I can copy into the functions.php or style.css of my PageLines-Customization folder so it's not overwritten by every update of PageLines and/or WordPress?

Addendum: The sizes options you see on the screenshots are referring to the usage of the "regular" image in the post only (not "featured" image). But I can't use this way to attach the image: If I do so (like I did in the past) I will have 2 images in the rss feed. And if I use the normal (not "featured") image only, then I do not get the thumbnail on the home page (blog) ...

I think the best route to go would be to use custom CSS to resize the thumbnails. You can't really define a size for thumbnails using the same method for regular images you upload using the media library.

@Catrina,alright, no matter how, just make it work )Could you provide a code I could use?As you can see above I already tried css, but that didn't work.What code shall I use?Don't forget: I'm no pro at all!

If you I understand you correctly, you wish to keep the thumbnail size as it is, when viewing your blog page. However, as soon as you're viewing a blog posts full content, you wish the thumbnail to be replaced with a larger image, is this correct ?

If it's not possible to do that "flexible" by using the medium-size definition of the WordPress media settings (that would be my favorite) I would dare to change the image size "hardcoded" ... if you let me know exactly what code I would have to put where and if it's possible to put that code in a file of the PageLines customization folder s that it's not overwritten by every update of PageLines or WordPress.

sorry, but that's not a good idea: If I would do so, I would have two images in the rss feed again - that's how and why I started this thread )

At least if I send the full post to the rss feed and not the excerpt only. But I can't send the excerpt because I learned that readers do not like to click in rss messages but want to read the full article.

So I hope there is a way to get a bigger image in the post without adding it into the post twice (one as "featured image" and one as a regular image in the post like you suggested)!

or if this is easier: Is there a way to make PageLines use the first picture in the post and use it as a thumbnail on the blog page (home page)?

If yes, then I could let the "featured image" go and use just one "regular" picture in the post only, as you suggested.
But in the past I couldn't manage to do so, because whithout "featured image" I got no thumbnail on the blog page (home page).
If you can tell be how to reach this, maybe this is the way to solve the problem ... ?

Is there a way to make PageLines use the first picture in the post and use it as a thumbnail on the blog page (home page)?

You can upload a picture to a post and use that same image as the featured image (the thumbnail) on the blog page. You are also right, the featured image and the thumbnail image are the same, so without a featured image, there is no thumbnail. You still want a thumbnail on your blog page, so you would have no choice but to keep the featured image.

"You can upload a picture to a post and use that same image as the featured image (the thumbnail) on the blog page." Sound great!
But how can I do this? I did't find a way to make WordPres and/or PageLines to work that way ...